Nothing to Say

I've nothing to say;
a hollow voice
meaningless noise

banal and absurd
words words..

Listen to the silence
quietly confess;
within this emptiness
can a child's eye view

be renewed.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Real

Show me
something
real..

a kindness
an innocence
an essence
a hidden depth;
a forbidden
truth
revealed..

please..

show me
something
real.

Poem & Painting by Mairi

Centrifuge

I've tumbled through
my centrifuge
again..

you know the one
that separates
good from bad;
bad from good..

if only
I could remember

the code
to unload
the debris.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

It’s Alright

Stop
enjoying the pain..
feeding
this
shadow..

blocking
the light..

let your
ethereal beauty
shine..

it’s all fine

it’s alright..
it’s alright.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

The Undoing

The phoney
altruism;
the schisms..

the do’s - the don’ts;

the lying
by omission..

the blame - game
shaming
control..

the taming
of our
screaming
souls.

Poem & Painting by Mairi

Whisper

We're tethered
together
here
yet alone, set apart..

I can hear
each heart

whisper..

I'm reaching out
reaching out

touch my soul.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Why

I don't know
why..
birds migrate 

and rivers run
dry..

why fate unfolds
like a story
told..

of rising high; 

falling low 
rising high.. 

I don't know why.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Home Within

A refuge..
where tensions dissolve
truth is spoken
and conflict
resolves..

where wounds heal
harmony returns
and the soul
reveals..

hearth and heart
are akin..

I'm home
within.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Waiting

We weep alone
in silence
with the healing 

wounds
of existence

waiting..

for life's
symmetry
and innocence
to return..

to see the essence...
be the light.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Charade

Oh... the charade
of humanity;
the treachery 

hubris
all that is..

can we feel
are we alive..

will our hearts break
enough

to survive.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Something Beautiful

A shaft of light;
the flash
of belief..

forgiving insight;
a falling
leaf..

benevolent toil;
the butterfly’s
wing..

a merciful smile;
all fragile
things.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss